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August 29

4 sourced moments from August 29 in history: Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction in August 1831; Daimler Patents the World's First Motorcycle (1885); The Soviet Union Tested Its First Atomic Bomb (1949), plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on August 29

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2005 Earth & Climate · Weather & Climate

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast

A weakening but immense storm came ashore in Louisiana, and the failure of New Orleans's levees turned a hurricane into a catastrophe.

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1949 History · War & Conflict

The Soviet Union Tested Its First Atomic Bomb

At dawn on a Kazakh steppe, a single blast shattered the American nuclear monopoly and recast the entire Cold War.

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1885 Technology · Transportation

Daimler Patents the World's First Motorcycle

A wooden two-wheeler with training wheels and a half-horsepower engine became the unlikely ancestor of every motorcycle.

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1831 Science · Physics

Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction in August 1831

On 29 August 1831 an iron ring wound with bonnet wire made a needle twitch, and Faraday found the principle behind nearly all electric power.

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